Installing AWS Infrastructure Provider using CAPIProvider resource

This section describes how to install the AWS InfrastructureProvider via CAPIProvider, which is responsible for managing Cluster API AWS CRDs and the Cluster API AWS controller.

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This section describes how to install the raw AWS InfrastructureProvider, which is responsible for managing the Cluster API AWS CRDs and the Cluster API AWS controller. The detailed configuration steps are described in the official CAPI Operator documentation.

Example:

---
apiVersion: v1
kind: Secret
metadata:
  name: aws-variables
  namespace: capa-system
type: Opaque
stringData:
  AWS_B64ENCODED_CREDENTIALS: ZZ99ii==
  ExternalResourceGC: "true"
---
apiVersion: turtles-capi.cattle.io/v1alpha1
kind: CAPIProvider
metadata:
  name: aws
  namespace: capa-system
spec:
  name: aws
  type: infrastructure # required
  version: v2.6.1
  configSecret:
    name: aws-variables # This will additionally populate the default set of feature gates for the provider inside the secret
  variables:
    EXP_MACHINE_POOL: "true"
    EXP_EXTERNAL_RESOURCE_GC: "true"
    CAPA_LOGLEVEL: "4"
  manager:
    syncPeriod: "5m"

Deleting providers

To remove the installed providers and all related Kubernetes objects just delete the following CRs:

kubectl delete coreprovider cluster-api
kubectl delete infrastructureprovider aws